Book Review: Bridesmaid for Hire

I’m a big fan of Meghan’s Quinn’s Almond Bay series and all her books that I’ve read in general. I just finished reading her book Bridesmaid for Hire which is the first book in her new Bridesmaid series and a spinoff of Almond Bay.

The novel follows Maggie Mitchell and Brody McFadden. Maggie is Hattie’s best friend from The Way I Hate Him. And if you’ve read The Reason I Married Him then you may remember Maggie and her new boyfriend Brody came to visit. Now this is how the two of them got together.

Maggie and Brody have known each other for years because Brody and Maggie’s brother are best friends.Maggie has had a crush on Brody since she was 19 and once years later at Maggie’s brother’s wedding her and Brody almost got together, but then Brody pushed her away and Maggie took that to mean he was rejecting her and has immensely disliked him since. Fast forward many years and the two of them just happen to both be in Bora Bora at the same time. Maggie is there to relax and have a real vacation since she hasn’t taken time off from being a wedding planner. Brody is there because he got an invite to the wedding of his billionaire boss’s daughter. He’s hoping he can get his boss, Reginald Hopper, to like him enough during those 10 days to get Reginald to choose his business proposal over his work nemesis, Deanna. Maggie, like I mentioned before, is a wedding planner and the Hopper’s are billionaires from their hotel properties, which are top venues for weddings. When Maggie finds out that Haisley Hopper’s wedding is taking place the same week she is staying at the Bora Bora resort, she realizes she needs to find a way in to maybe make some business connections.

Maggie sees Brody struggling from afar to not make things socially awkward with his boss and swoops in pretending to be his girlfriend. Not only that, but when the Hoppers find out she’s a wedding expert and Haisley’s best friend is unable to make it to the wedding last minute, they ask Maggie to fill in as a bridesmaid to keep the numbers even.

Maggie and Brody may hate each other (they actually hate that they both really like each other) but pretending to be a couple could benefit both of their careers. Can they keep up the ruse? Will the Hopper’s find out the truth? Will fake dating lead to them revealing their true feelings for one another?

This book was such a fun read and I loved Maggie and Brody. I really felt for Brody though because the poor guy could not catch a break! It was fun to see him be the sort of rambling mess since a lot of Meghan Quinn’s female characters are usually the ones who have no filters or tend to word vomit. The book was the perfect mix of being funny, spicy, and full of tension between these two enemies.

Read this if you want a spicy romcom with the fake dating and enemies to lovers tropes.

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